2008 Faculty Digital Resources Workshop, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Thursday, November 20th

Time: 9-12 (Library opens at 8:30)

Location: Van Pelt Library - 3420 Walnut St - University of Pennsylvania

Session 2: "Online Sources for Research in Literary Studies."

Michael Biggins (University of Washington) & Liladhar Pendse (UCLA)

All of the sources below can be accessed through Central and Eastern European Studies, Eurasian and Slavic Studies Resources at UCLA portal that is powered by Libguides(tm) platform.

Selected Licensed Sources at the UCLA Library

Voprosy Literatury: Published from 1957. An authoritative journal of literary criticism offering articles and roundtable transcripts dealing with problems of Russian and world literature, history and theory of literature. The UCLA Library provides full-text access to its students, staff and faculty. The service provider is Eastview.

Voprosy Istorii: The oldest Soviet and Russian academic history journal, Voprosy istorii (“Issues of History”) has offered scholarly perspectives on events in Russia and the world since 1926. Published by the Russian Academy of Sciences, this legendary journal covering Russian and world history was first published under the title Istorik-Marksist (Marxist Historian, 1926-1941), then Istoricheskii zhurnal (History Journal, 1937-1945) and finally under the present title (since 1945).

CEEOL: The Central and Eastern European Online Library: C.E.E.O.L. is an online archive which provides access to full text PDF articles from 341 humanities and social science journals and re-digitized documents pertaining to Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European topics.

Some examples of search:Dostoevskii or Dostoevski or Dostoevsky

MLA International BibliographyIndexes worldwide publications on topics including literature, language, linguistics and folklore from 1923 to the present.

Some searches for illustrative purposes: Dostoevsky as a keyword, and Dostoevsky as a descriptor/subject, and now if we click the descriptor with full name of the author that we had retrieved during our keyword search.Please note the magnitude of the results. Does it speak to the quality of the retrieval or intentions of the searcher?